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He was a very loving man. He was always kissing and touching her and her sisters.
~ Forrest inadvertently describes Mr. Curran's abusive behavior, not knowing his true nature.
Jenny! Where’d you run to? You better get back here, girl! Where you at? Jenny? Jenny! Where you at? Jenny!
~ Mr. Curran shouting to his daughter. This was also his only spoken line.

Mr. Curran is the main antagonist in the 1994 dramedy film Forrest Gump based on the 1986 drama novel by Winston Groom. He is the abusive father of Forrest's childhood friend and crush Jenny Curran.

He was portrayed by Kevin Mangan.

Biography[]

Mr. Curran is stated to be a farmer. While Forrest believes that he is a “loving man” who treats his daughters like any normal parent would, he is in fact a child rapist, who regularly molests Jenny and her sisters, and it is heavily implied that the abuse is physical as well. Because of him, Jenny never seems to want to return home after school.

One day, when Forrest goes over to her house to visit her, Mr. Curran is heard shouting Jenny’s name; as Jenny takes Forrest through the cornfield, he runs out of the house with a bottle in his hand and begins to pursue them through the cornfield. Luckily for Jenny, her father is unable to find her in his drunken state; once the two kids are out of Mr. Curran's sight, Jenny prays to become a bird so she can fly away.

Eventually, the authorities somehow became aware of what was happening at the Curran home, leading Mr. Curran to be arrested and imprisoned for all the abuse he inflicted on his daughters, while Jenny is sent to live with her grandmother, who lives in a trailer close to Forrest’s home; Forrest reveals he was happy after hearing about it, because Jenny was so close.

Due to all the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father during her childhood, Jenny spends her adulthood living a destructive lifestyle, constantly dating abusive men, having wild unprotected sex and experimenting with drugs. Such actions eventually culminate with Jenny contracting a virus of some sort and passing away years later. However, before her passing, Jenny makes amends with her past by throwing rocks at her father's house (which was later bulldozed by Forrest to respect her wishes), has a son with Forrest (posthumously making Mr. Curran a grandfather) and marries Forrest to live with him happily in the final days of her life.

Following Jenny's death, Forrest sees a bird flying, symbolically meaning that God granted Jenny her wish to become a bird so she could fly away from her father (as well as a possible indicator of Jenny's spirit being symbolized by a bird).

Personality[]

Not much is known, although he is ruthless and uncaring.

Trivia[]

  • A very disturbing fact most people overlook while seeing the film is that if Forrest knew that Mr. Curran molested and sexually abused his daughters (though Forrest thought he was a loving man who played with his daughters), this may mean that Mr. Curran abused Jenny and her sisters in front of him. This makes his actions much worse, meaning that Mr. Curran took advantage of Forrest not really understanding what he was doing and not telling anyone.
  • What happened to Mr. Curran after he was arrested for his crimes remains unknown, but it is most likely that he died before the recent events of the film.
  • It is also unknown what happened to Jenny's sisters after Mr. Curran was arrested, given that it's mentioned that Jenny was sent to live with her grandmother, but nothing more is mentioned about her sisters. It’s possible they were sent to live with other relatives or sent to a foster home and their grandmother possibly raised Jenny solely because she was the one who received the most abuse from Mr. Curran.
  • Mr. Curran's actor, Kevin Mangan, also served as a greensman for the film, which is a production personnel on a film set who is responsible for obtaining and taking care of anything "green" or natural used in the film production.
  • While not explicitly stated in the film, it's highly likely that Jenny's grandmother is Mr. Curran's mother-in-law and not his mother. If Mr. Curran's mother had been alive, she would have surely did something for her granddaughters had she known what her son was doing.
  • Being the main antagonist, he is only shown in the scene where he attempts to find Jenny.
  • The disease Jenny had was not identified in the book or film, but was implied to be Hepatitis C in the book and HIV/AIDS in the film.
  • While it is unknown how Mr. Curran got caught by the authorities, it’s likely that Forrest told his mother about Mr. Curran in which Forrest’s mother discovered Mr. Curran’s true nature and called the authorities.
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